Infrastructure Architect

Area(s) of responsibility

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Infrastructure Architect / Lead (Offshore - India)

Experience: 10+ Years
Location: India (Offshore)

• Assess current infrastructure, hosting, and application landscape.
• Define On-Prem, Cloud, Hybrid, RISE, and SaaS strategies.
• Inventory servers, VMs, storage, databases, cloud resources, endpoints, and security tools.
• Classify assets for transfer, clone, migration, replacement, or retirement.
• Analyze dependencies across applications, databases, middleware, batch jobs, interfaces, DNS, and third-party systems.
• Review cloud subscriptions, SaaS platforms, contracts, and vendor agreements.
• Design target infrastructure architecture and hosting model.
• Define WAN, VPN, SD-WAN, DNS, routing, firewall, internet, and cloud connectivity architecture.
• Design AD, Entra ID, MFA, PAM, certificates, and security solutions.
• Develop migration strategies for servers, VMs, databases, file shares, and cloud workloads.
• Define backup, monitoring, logging, DR, security zones, and operational readiness requirements.
• Prepare migration roadmaps, resource estimates, and cutover plans.
• Identify infrastructure risks, assumptions, dependencies, and remediation actions.
• Define infrastructure, connectivity, security, performance, and DR testing approaches.
• Lead cutover, hypercare, and stakeholder coordination activities.

Preferred Skills: Azure, AWS, GCP, AD/Entra ID, MFA, PAM, WAN/VPN/SD-WAN, DNS, DR, Middleware, Cloud Migration, Infrastructure Transformation, Security Architecture, and Stakeholder Management.